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A. B. CREEKI.

CARD CASE.

APPLICATION man FEB. a. 1919.

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unrrn S'IATES PATENT IC ALLEN B. CREEK, or sAn rnnnorsoo, CALIFORNIA,ASSIGNOR or own-HALF 'ro AINEIIONE J. CARDOZA, or snn rzenn'c sco,onmronnrn.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1, 1919.

Application filed February 3, 1919. Serial No. 274,698.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLnN B. CREEK, a citizen of the United States, andresident of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCard-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a type of card cases in which the cards may bepartly ej ect ed by means of a flexible band secured to the back of thecase, passing under said cards and through an opening in the front ofsaid case.

This type of card case is ordinarily designed to fit a vest pocket andis provided with no means for carrying a pencil of any kind. To providea pocket for a pencil adds materially to the cost of producing thearticle and adds to the bulk of the same as well as preventing itsgeneral use as a pocket case. Also, a pencil carrying means of thatnature is not desirable because of the inconvenience of removing thepencil therefrom and the ever-present danger 'of ne lecting to place thepencil in said pocket a' er use and the consequent misplacing and lossof the same.

It is the object of my invention to so attach a pencil to the case as tosatisfactorily overcome all of the objections above set forth andthereby provide a case of the character indicated which is alwaysprovided with a pencil ready for use, occupying but a small spacewithout additional pockets, and automatically presented for use orwithdrawn to a fixed position after use by the act of ejecting orreplacing the cards in the case as the case may be.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the noveland useful provision, construction, formation, combination and relativearrangement of parts, members and features, all as hereinafterdescribed, shown in the drawing and finally pointed out in the claim.

The figure isa perspectiveview of a card case embodying my invention.

tached to the inside of the back of case 1 at l, passing downwardly andunder cards 2 and thence forwardly and upwardly and out of case 1through slot 5 so that by pulling ribbon 3 out through slot 5 the cards2 are forced out of case 1.

To the free end of ribbon 3 is attached a pencil 6 by looping the ribbonaround the same and sewing the same in place, the said ribbon being ofsuch a length that when the cards arein position in case 1 the saidpenc1l will maintain contact with the said case 1 in a substantiallyhorizontal position as shown;

When the cards are partly ejected for the purpose of recording datathereon by pulling rib-bon 3 outwardly the pencil 6 is rendered freelyavailable for use because the portion of ribbon 3 drawn out issubstantially double the length of the exposed portion of the cards.When the cards are forced back into position in the case 1 theyautomatically withdraw the ribbon by forcing it downwardly into the caseand there by automatically lock the pencil in the po- 'sition shown.

The cards are shown partly ejected in a dotted lines at 7 and the pencilis indicated in position for use in dotted lines at 8, the ribbon beinindicated at 9.

It is also pointec l out that the pencil also provides a convenient andsubstantial handle whereby the ribbon 3 may be drawn out with a minimumof difiiculty, and it also forms a stop that prevents the ribbon frombeing entirely withdrawn into the case 1.

It is further pointed out that a flat ribbon is used so that it isnecessary to form slot 5 parallel with the top of card case 1 with theresult that the pencil normally assurnes a convenient horizontalposition near the top of the case.

I claim:

The combination with a card case having a flexible member attached tothe inner surcards are in position in said case and freely face and nearthe top of the back thereof available for use when said cards are partlyand passing through an aperture in the ejected from said case. 10 frontthereof and forming a loop to sup- In testimony whereof I have hereuntoaf- 5 port cards e placed therein, of a pencil atfixed my signature this27th day of January,

tached t0 the free end of said ribbon and 1919. forming a stop for saidribbon When said ALLEN B. CREEK.

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